16/05/2017-22/05/2017 Mapping Dieterdreist wrote a proposal on aeroway=spaceport. The voting is open until May 30th. Yo paseopor calls to use the traffic sign recognition of Mapillary in OSM as nodes to capture traffic signs. On the tagging mailing list, Dave F wonders about the existence of toilets:wheelchair and …

09/05/2017-15/05/2017 About us The weeklyOSM team is looking for new members to join the team. weeklyOSM publishes 52 issues per year currently in eight languages, regardless of holidays or public holidays. To do this we need to get reinforcements. As a part of weeklyOSM, you can work on: collecting and evaluate links …

02/05/2017-08/05/2017 Mapping There is a discussion on Reddit about the level of detail in OSM, using a UK maze as a starting point. The proposal for tagging bus bays is accepted. Paul Johnson wants to propose a better way to map traffic control (stop and yield) and traffic calming devices, by using relations to …

25/04/2017-01/05/2017 Mapping The Bing Maps team announced in its blog the release of new satellite imagery (a total of 3.67 million km²) in Turkey, Greece and Argentina in cooperation with DigitalGlobe. Nuno Caldeira describes how to improve road tagging using Mapillary horizontal imagery in JOSM. The Zoo tagging has …

18/04/2017-24/04/2017 Mapping Marc Gemis (Escada) explains the workflow he follows when he surveys an area to map on OpenStreetMap. Christoph Hormann provides new satellite images for mapping on his website imagico.de. The pictures show the North Sea in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, the Petschorasee coast in …

11/04/2017-17/04/2017 Mapping There is a discussion on the OpenStreetMap Forum about Bing rolling out new aerial imagery for Darmstadt, Germany. A question by wolfbert about grouping buildings and terrain of castles leads (automatic translation) to an amusing discussion. The results are on the wiki. Levente Juhász …

04/04/2017-10/04/2017 Mapping Walter Nordmann analysed the extent of the improper tagging landuse=farm, which has to be changed. His NoFarm-Map helps to discover such areas. Version 0.9.9 of Vespucci is now available! Simon Poole shares the news along with some details. User Rogehm brings up the discussion about the …

28/03/2017-03/04/2017 The OSM April fools of 2017 The map editor is now also available in a variant for companies with optimized look and feel. Mapping In an answer to a beginner’s question on the German forum, user Galbinus shows very succinctly, how to create a new roundabout using iD. User Polyglot shows how to get …

21/03/2017-27/03/2017 Mapping At the FOSSGIS conference, data privacy on OSM was discussed. Frederik Ramm summarizes (automatic translation) some relevant aspects in the German forum. There was also a brief discussion on Talk-de mailing list. Personally identifiable data, such as mapping activities, is still visible to …

14/03/2017-20/03/2017 Mapping The Costa Rican community photomapped the trails in the natural forest reserve of Bosque del Niño in Poás volcano. The Mexican OSM community proposes the use of the hashtag #CallesVioletas to visualize and map the public spaces. This is done by using an inclusive methodology that empowers …